Creature Features

Science Museum of Minnesota

Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees on PBS website

Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees Home Site -- lots of great information!

Tie-in educational plans for all science museums showing Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees

Jane Goodall Institute

IMAX Corporation

 

WEEK 12 -- APR 8

Wildlife Film for Education and Outreach: The IMAX Experience

**EARLY DEPARTURE TIME**

Class meets at 5:30 at Bell Museum to drive to the Science Museum of Minnesota

GUEST SPEAKER: Mike Day, Director and Executive Producer, William L. McKnight-3M Omnitheater, Science Museum of Minnesota
" Visit Omnitheater, Science Museum of Minnesota
" tour of IMAX equipment
" Ellen O'Connor, Head Projectionist, tour of facility
" The history of IMAX film technology
" IMAX emphasis on educational content in cultural centers
" The Great Debate Redux in IMAX: fact vs. fiction
" Screening at 7:00: Bears, A Giant Screen Film


ACTIVITY: You will be given guidelines for making observations through the guest lecture, tour and movie. Notes taken during tour will be handed in at the end of the tour.

ACTIVITY DUE ON APR 15:
a. You will be given guidelines for making observations through the guest lecture, tour and movie. Notes taken during tour will be handed in at the end of the tour. Click here for note taking guidelines.

b. Turn in reading notes from your assigned Chapter 3 reading. Click here for questions given for this reading assignment (originally from 4.1.03)

ACTIVTY DUE APR 15: READINGS: Chapter 3, Reel Nature, Zooming In On Animals' Private Lives, pp. 59-84.